The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-12-31
Ex-secretary Manning Dead.

Ex-Secretary of the Treasury Manning
passed away quietly at his old home in Al
bany on Saturday afternoon. The serious
turn his malady< (BrighLs disease) had
taken few days before left little or no
hope of recovery. He was only semi
conscious at intervals during the last two
days of his life, but was fully aware of the
impending change and met death with
brave and serene fortitude. He had gone
to his old home only few days before to
spend the Holidays with his immediate
family and friends, and it was even then
generally conceded by those best posted as
to the real situation, that he was returning
home to die, though death came somewhat
earlier than was then anticipated. 1t is
now known that his stroke of apoplexy in
the Spring of SO was directly traceable to
Bright's disease, which is belieyed to have
been caused by over work in the Treasury
Department Office, place said to be a
death. trap from poor ventilation and worse
plumbing.
Daniel Manning was born in Albany, N.
Y, Aug Ie, 1881. His early life is some
what shrouded in mystery, he being COM
D. htively unknown outside his nativecity
until within recent years. His parents
were poor and his social position was not
such as to promise brilliant future. He
had little or no education as boy, but en-
tered the office of the Albany argus, a
leading Democratic paper, and there com
menced his career which shone in after
years with such lustre. He gradually ac-
quired style of writing which in time
secured him position as reporter. From
this he drifted into editorial writing, and
! in 1878 he became editor-in- chief of the
Aysus. at forty-two years of age. HI
gradually acquired little capital which
he invested so judiciously and well that he
became largely interested in many business
enterprises. among them the Nationa
Commercial Bank, of that city, of which
he soon became President, which position
be held until So. when he entered the ser
vices of the National Government under
the present Administration. Early in
Cleveland's Administration as Governor Of
New York, Mr. Manning identified him
self with him, and soon became promi
nent leader of Democracy in the Empire
State and later in the United States. He
was man of marked and strong charac
teristics and the sort of leader that men
naturally tie to. To Mr.. Mannings clear
head and daring and skilful management
of the Treasury Department, the Cleve'
land Administration was enabled to meet
the many serious and perplexing problems
that naturally confronted it. In the early
Summer of '86 he left Washington for a
few months vacation, but never returned
to the full charge of his office as Secretary
of the Treasury. In the Fall he resigned
and went to Europe in search of health.
He remained in England several months,
and returned last Spring to assume the du-
ties of President of a new banking instltu.
ton just incorporated in New York city.
He never engaged very actively in this
work, but lived quietly, and in a sense re-
tired, on account of his health He has
been twice married, and leaves two sons
and two daughters, all of whom are grown
up and some married.
The funeral took place at Albany on
Tuesday, President Cleveland and his Cab
met together with large representation
from both branches of Congress. attend
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